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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Love gives without taking
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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